While trying to find one of the 472342 win2k install CDs I thought I had laying around the place, I came across a pile of ancient backups and debian/knoppix/gentoo install disks. In these blighted times, with identity thieves hiding around every corner and plundering every rubbish bag, the only sane course of action prior to …
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Saturday: Regent’s Recreation: Recording rhythmic revolutions. I took photos of friends at the Alfresco dance event in Regent’s Park Sunday: Reading: Requesting / reacquiring requisite resource. I gave the Dagenham Town Show a miss and went instead to an electronics fair in Reading
Mid July, wet weather? It must be town show time! 2007 sees the 56th running of this annual two-day event. I’m planning to visit on Sunday. On Saturday I’ll be in Regent’s Park not learning to dance at the Broadwalk Ballroom.
The visitor turned out to be of the clueful-evil variety – a scientist turned administrative bean-counter. Luck had it that the lash-up experiment was buried under a pile of other equipment I’d just moved into the lab. I was honestly able to say I was working on sorting everything out. There was a brief discussion …
The new job is going reasonably well, I’m not sure that I’m over-keen at being introduced to people as the solution to all their troubles, but I hope I can be useful. Tomorrow I have to entertain, persuade and divert some industrial partner visitors. Progress on the project they are coming to see is pretty …
